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Strange Bedfellows: Jazz and Pop and Heinrich Schenker?

by Kurt Ellenberger
March 27, 2024

I. A Brief Introduction to Schenkerian Analysis Heinrich Schenker (1868-1935) was an Austrian musician, composer, and most notably, music theorist whose ideas about analyzing and explaining music were groundbreaking and successful. Along with other mathematically oriented theories, like Allen Forte's “Set Theory" and Arnold Schoenberg's “Serialism," Schenker's theories were very popular in academia. These theories were ...